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Barclaycard Offers State-Of-The-Art Spending Categorization And Reporting
In August 2009, Barclaycard rolled out its new secure Web site, mybarclaycard, offering state-of-the-art functionality for managing credit cards online. The site combines excellent online banking...
Apple's Cross-Device Product Strategy Drives Product Differentiation And Customer Loyalty
Let's face it: Many observers, anticipating a redesign and a raft of hardware innovations, reacted with disappointment to Apple's iPhone 4S unveiling. Does it matter? No. Why? Because Apple launched...
eBusinesses Must Prepare Now To Win Over New Customers
The Australian federal government's National Broadband Network (NBN) is set to turn Australia into one of the most connected nations in the world. But how should eBusiness professionals respond? So...

Forrester Forrsights For Business Technology
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Web-Influenced Retail Sales Forecast (US): Total offline retail sales that are influenced by online research. Offline-influenced retail sales by 30 retail categories such as PCs, apparel, housewares,...
Latin American Consumer Technographics®
Over the past couple of years, Latin America has risen on many global companies' priority lists of new markets to focus on and understand. Given the meteoric rise of social networks like orkut and...

Top Performers' Channel Investments Span The Customer Tech Adoption Life Cycle
Tech vendors have historically treated channels as "outsourced sales" — or have, at least, invested that way. But a handful of vendors have departed from this model, choosing instead to invest...
Identifying The Right Option For Your B2C eCommerce Business
China has become the leading emerging market for many Western brands and retailers. Attractive due to the scale and growth of the retail market, many companies view China as both a near-term...

Forty-four million US online leisure travelers do not see a role for technology in their lives. These travel technology pessimists use technology, including the Web, because they have to, not...
Wells Fargo's Second Attempt At Online Chat Finds Incremental Success
Wells Fargo was a pioneer in the use of online chat in 2002. While that initial move into live help met with mixed results, the desire on the team's part to inject human assistance into the process...
Mainstream Adoption Hinges On Issues With Value, Security, And Support
Mobile banking adoption continues to gather momentum in the US, fueled by strong consumer appetite for smartphones and banks' burgeoning supply of new mobile banking applications, websites, and...
Effective mobile marketing begins with understanding how consumers use the two main types of mobile devices that can deliver rich marketing experiences: smartphones and tablets. This short report...

Executive Overview: The B2B Online Community Playbook
This playbook provides you with a strategy framework, road map, and the tools to establish a healthy and active online B2B community that delivers value to prospects, customers, and peers at each...

Navigating The Centralized Versus Localized Approach
Today's global eBusiness executives are struggling to organize eBusiness operations that effectively support increasing international revenues. Companies have experimented with a variety of...
Capital One Takes The Top Spot For 2010
For the first time, Forrester evaluated the public Web sites of the nine largest North American credit card issuers — American Express, Bank of America, Bank of Montreal, Capital One (US),...
The Dual Nature Of eBusiness Requires A Multidimensional Organizational Structure
Creating the optimal eBusiness organizational structure is one of the biggest challenges confronting eBusiness executives at financial services firms today. As both a channel and an enterprise...
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Details the market size and analyzes the key drivers behind the growth in digital games, music, and video spend on mobile and tablet devices. The forecast breaks down consumer behavior of mobile...
For businesses to remain competitive, they must enable their workers to draw ideas and labor from parties both inside and outside of the company. Employees charged with developing and marketing...
Use The Customer Buying Cycle To Align The Go-To-Market Strategy
Despite the best intentions, the conventional thinking of marketing and sales leaders around how to align these two teams is flawed, as it addresses the symptoms rather than the cause of the chasm....
Remote Deposit Capture Sharply Cuts The Cost Of Deposit Taking
Financial institutions continue to face challenges on generating revenue. Recent US regulations have greatly reduced overdraft fees and debit card interchange income. With no clear sources of...
As consumers become more comfortable integrating social tools into their everyday lives, eBusiness leaders seek the right social strategy to achieve their goals. While the benefits of social media...